The Intersectional Environmentalist Database

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South Carolina South Carolina

M.A.R.S.H. Project

Our mission is to help to rewild and ecologically restore Charleston’s unique saltmarsh ecosystem.

We believe humans are part of a larger living community that collectively enables life. As members of this living system, our goal is to create more life with our own, contributing generously through reciprocal acts of stewardship and the thoughtful ecological restoration of our living landscapes.

We acknowledge the interconnectedness of all life and seek to increase its overall abundance.

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South Dakota South Dakota

NDN Collective

NDN Collective's mission is to build the collective power of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and Nations to exercise our inherent right to self-determination, while fostering a world that is built on a foundation of justice and equity for all people and Mother Earth.

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California California

350 Pacific Climate Warriors

350 Pacific is a youth-led grassroots network working with communities to fight climate change from the Pacific Islands and diaspora.

350 Pacific works with organizers across 18 Pacific Island nations and diaspora communities in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States of America to highlight our island countries’ vulnerabilities to climate change while showcasing our strength and resilience of people. We work through existing networks and with a range of partner organizations who share in our vision for the Pacific and the planet. 350 Pacific has organized and facilitated workshops to educate and empower youth in the region, and through our many campaigns, have amplified the voices of frontline communities in the face of the climate crisis.

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Illinois Illinois

Adalah Justice Project

Adalah Justice Project is a Palestinian-led advocacy organization based in the U.S. that builds cross-movement coalitions to achieve collective liberation. Our work is rooted in the conviction that drawing the linkages between US policy abroad and repressive state practices at home is crucial to shifting the balance of power.

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Florida Florida

Al-Awda: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition

Al-Awda, The Palestine Right to Return Coalition, is a broad-based, non-partisan, democratic, and charitable organization of grassroots activists and students committed to comprehensive public education on the rights of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and lands of origin, and to full restitution of all their confiscated and destroyed property in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International law and the numerous United Nations Resolutions upholding such rights

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New York New York

CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities

CAAAV’s purpose is to develop the leadership of working class Asian immigrants to make a significant intervention in the gentrification of NYC by building neighborhood power in Chinatown and Astoria. Chinatown and Astoria are neighborhoods where Asian immigrants are the one of the driving forces of the working class, and could potentially shift the long-term political landscape of the city.

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Texas Texas

Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas

We the Carrizo/Comecrudo will always try to connect the past to the future by living in the present. Our desire to be advocates of Peace and Harmony among our own people as well as other Nations has been one of our greatest traits as we traversed through Texas and beyond.

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Alaska Alaska

Chugach Regional Resources Commission

Our organization’s mission is to promote Tribal sovereignty and the protection of our subsistence lifestyle through the development and implementation of Tribal natural resource management programs to assure the conservation, sound economic development, and stewardship of the natural resources in the traditional use areas of the Chugach region.

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New York New York

Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES)

GOLES (Good Old Lower East Side) is a neighborhood housing and preservation organization that has served the Lower East Side of Manhattan since 1977. We’re dedicated to tenants’ rights, homelessness prevention, economic development, and community revitalization.

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Illinois Illinois

Grow Greater Englewood (GGE)

Grow Greater Englewood is a 501(c)(3) social enterprise that works with residents and developers to create sustainable local food economies, green businesses, and land sovereignty to empower residents to create wellness and wealth.

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Mississippi Mississippi

Higher Purpose Co

Higher Purpose Co.'s® mission is to build community wealth with Black residents in Mississippi by supporting the ownership of financial, cultural, and political power. Our theory of change is anchored by an integrated model: asset building, narrative change, and advocacy.

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South Dakota South Dakota

Honor the Earth

Our mission is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.

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Indiana Indiana

Kheprw Institute

Kheprw Institute (KI) works to create a more just, equitable, human-centered world by nurturing youth and young adults to be leaders, critical thinkers, and doers who see the people in any community as the most valuable assets and are committed to working with community assets to bring about change that leads to empowered self-reliant and self-determining communities

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Tennessee Tennessee

Memphis Community Against Pollution (MCAP)

Memphis Community Against the Pipeline (MCAP) is a Black-led grassroots movement in Memphis, Tennessee that fought and beat Valero Energy Corporation and Plains All American’s Byhalia Connection Pipeline, a proposed crude oil pipeline that would cut through Southwest Memphis communities already burdened by decades of environmental injustice.

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North Carolina North Carolina

North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers Land Loss Prevention Project (LLPP)

The Land Loss Prevention Project was founded in 1982 by the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers to curtail epidemic losses of Black owned land in North Carolina. Land Loss Prevention Project was incorporated in the state of North Carolina in 1983. The organization broadened its mission in 1993 to provide legal support and assistance to all financially distressed and limited resource farmers and landowners in North Carolina.

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Nevada Nevada

People of the Red Mountain

People of Red Mountain (Atsa Koodakuh wyh Nuwu, in Paiute) is a committee of traditional knowledge keepers and descendants of the Fort McDermitt Paiute, Shoshone and Bannock Tribes working in coalition with allies to protect our ancestral homelands.

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New Mexico New Mexico

Pueblo Action Alliance

Pueblo Action Alliance is a community driven grassroots organization that protects Pueblo cultural sustainability and community defense by addressing environmental and social impacts in Indigenous communities.

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Delaware Delaware

Socially Responsible Agricultural Project

Through education, advocacy, and organizing, SRAP collaborates with communities to protect public health, environmental quality, and local economies from the damaging impacts of industrial livestock production and to advocate for a socially responsible food future.

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Kansas Kansas

Sunflower Land Trust, Inc

The Sunflower Land Trust (SLT) is a Kansas-based land trust established in 1996 with the mission to provide a wide range of conservation activities for Kansas landowners. With decades of conservation and land management experience, SLT can help landowners to better conserve and protect their family land. The Sunflower Land Trust promotes conservation activities by offering a wide range of land protection programs, tax incentives, and real estate options. We also promote legacy, mitigation, and specialized assistance programs.

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Louisiana Louisiana

Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth builds power and cultivates solutions among frontline communities advancing climate justice and democracy. All of our work is rooted in a commitment to Black Liberation.

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Arkansas Arkansas

The Native Conservancy

Native Conservancy was established in 2003 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization to empower Alaska Native peoples to permanently protect and preserve endangered habitats on their ancestral homelands. We strive to maintain and secure titles to Native lands in conservation trusts to strengthen our inherent rights of sovereignty, subsistence and spirituality.

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Utah Utah

Utah Diné Bikéyah

Preserve and protect the cultural and natural resources of ancestral Native American Lands to benefit and bring healing to people and the Earth.

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